alice + olivia’s fall/winter 2016 presentation

  |   22-02-2016

Stacey Bendet’s fall 2016 collection for alice + olivia is set in the cultural playground that was and is downtown New York City. For Bendet, this collection is a modern ode to the late 1970s downtown art scene, where rock ‘n’ roll edge meets geek chic glamour. New York was bleak and dangerous, financially bankrupt but culturally rich as the art and music scenes boomed. The air was filled with perilous possibilities and a melting pot of cool culture.

Forgot boho seventies and think the gritter side of the urban city during that decade. The presentation was staged to manifest the day in the life of a New Yorker artist, beginning with her painting in her studio and ending with a trip to a club, having ingested, as the empty vials would suggest, lots and lots of pills along the way.

There were a handful of punk-inspired pieces: an embossed green leather skirt, and an embroidered flare-sleeve coat, a long-sleeve geometric-print gown inspired by Frank Stella, kick-flare trousers and jeans, fedora hats, thigh-high boots and long skirts, neckties, embroidered denim and leopard print.

       

 

 

 

 

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